 | René Girard - 1979 - 356 σελίδες
...hath been ever held the gravest, moralest and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear,...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or generally involving children or young girls) suffice to remind us of the hard... | |
 | Dieter Wunderlich - 1979 - 380 σελίδες
...gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power of raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own efforts... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 σελίδες
...gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems." Aristotle's theory that tragedy has "the power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions" is cited, and every effort is made to prove that tragedy is of the highest seriousness. He explains... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 σελίδες
...preface to Samson, "the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear,...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." The catharsis of Oedipus Rex, Aristotle's... | |
 | John Milton - 1988 - 244 σελίδες
...hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear,...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 σελίδες
...ed. JT Boulton, 2nd edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), p. 59. -" Hall, Peri hupsous, p. 11; Longinus 7.2. fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated'. Milton goes on to offer a homeopathic definition of catharsis: 'so in Physic things of melancholic... | |
 | Ronald L. Dotterer - 1989 - 252 σελίδες
...asserts, hath been ever the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of these and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight,... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 σελίδες
...of all other Poems: there' fore said by Ariflodt to be of power by raising pity and fear, or tenor, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper* and reduce them to juft measure with a kind of delight, Itirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.... | |
 | Marvin A. Carlson - 1993 - 564 σελίδες
...the moral thoughts expressed in the text. Indeed, his citation of Aristotle on the end of drama — "raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated"17 — comes close to rejecting the traditional... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 σελίδες
...ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristode to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suchlike passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
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TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,... 
